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Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop's New Installer Set To Ship Without OpenZFS Install Support  Phoronix

It was just four years ago in Ubuntu 19.10 that Ubuntu's desktop installer added OpenZFS support for carrying out root file-system installations atop this ZFS file-system. Since then the Canonical/Ubuntu interest has waned. Ahead of the Ubuntu 23.04 release this week, I tried out the Ubuntu Lunar Lobster daily snapshot this weekend to find the OpenZFS install support with Ubuntu's new desktop installer to still be missing...

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 16th, 2023  9to5Linux

Linux 6.3-rc7 Released - Hoping For A Calm Week Ahead  Phoronix

Linux 6.3-rc7 was just released and if the next week remains calm, it would mean that Linux 6.3 is shipping next weekend...

AMD Squeezes In AMDGPU Fixes, FPO/FAMS Display Power Savings For Linux 6.4  Phoronix

While we are basically past the cut-off of new feature material to into DRM-Next that wants to be part of the upcoming Linux 6.4 merge window, this week AMD sent in a fixes-oriented set of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver updates that does include some minor feature updates...

Sent in this morning for Linux 6.3 is a Linux CPU scheduler fix to deal with an imbalancing issue that's been present in the mainline kernel since a scheduler rework that landed back in late 2019...

Linux Fix On The Way For A Scheduler Imbalance Overflow Issue  Phoronix

6 VirtualBox Alternatives for Running a Virtual Machine on Your PC  MUO - MakeUseOf

Microsoft has published its latest CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230407 Linux distribution images this weekend as their in-house open-source OS that is used for a variety of purposes, mostly around Azure infrastructure...

Microsoft Continues Building Out Its Linux Distribution With More ...  Phoronix

Last October Google engineers decided they would deprecate JPEG-XL support in Chrome over some debated rationale for the move. Even amid the community uproar they went ahead to drop the JPEG-XL support. The Free Software Foundation has finally commented on the matter...

The digiKam 8.0 open-source professional photo management software has been released. The digiKam 8.0 release brings a host of new features and improvements, including ongoing work of porting over to the Qt6 toolkit...

How to install Android Studio on Debian 12 | 11 Linux  H2S Media

Linux Operating System Market: 2023-2030 Share, Growth and ...  Digital Journal

Asus confirms the ROG Ally will launch globally - comments  GSMArena.com

LXQt 1.3 was just released as the newest version of this lightweight Qt-based desktop environment...

Canonical Bringing Livepatch Support to HWE Kernels  OMG! Ubuntu!

LXQt 1.3 Desktop Environment Released with Wayland Improvements, Bug Fixes  9to5Linux